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TO GO WITH: India-prostitution-court-crime, FEATURE by Abhaya Srivastava
This photograph taken on July 8, 2015, shows a view of a brothel in New Delhi. Soliciting is illegal in India along with running a brothel and pimping, but the law, an archaic throw back to British colonial times, is vague on prostitution itself. Sex workers are hoping the Supreme Court's ruling will force the government to decriminalise the industry. They say they are tired of being randomly targeted by police and sent to correction homes where they say conditions are worse than jails. AFP PHOTO/PRAKASH SINGHPRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images